The Left is Now More Unpopular Worldwide Than Any Time Since the Cold War: Report; The Left is More Unpopular Than Any Time Since the Cold War – Except in Starmer’s Britain

The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report:

Lefty political parties across the world are now more unpopular than any time since the Cold War, a staggering analysis of recent elections shows.

The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45% of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections, conducted by the Telegraph.

In the United States and Western Europe, progressives were even more unpopular — with the left-leaning parties securing only 42% of their respective vote

The Right, meanwhile, won 57% of the average votes — representing the widest gap since 1990, the analysis found.

The global demise of the political left comes off the back of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide election win.

Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday, secured the popular vote with 77 million votes compared to the 75 million his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, raked in.

The Left’s declining popularity is only expected to continue, too, experts say.

In the wake of Harris’ defeat, leftist parties in Canada, Australia, and Germany are already predicted to suffer similar losses in upcoming ballots. —>READ MORE HERE

The Left is more unpopular than any time since the Cold War – except in Starmer’s Britain:

Right-wing groups emerged as global winners after more than 1.5bn voted in over 70 countries last year:

Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, The Telegraph has assessed.

The analysis comes after a year of election triumphs for conservatives around the world, crowned by Donald Trump’s election as US president.

Right-wing groups emerged as the worldwide winners after more than 1.5 billion people voted in more than 70 countries in 2024, the most on record in a single year.

Leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election, according to Telegraph analysis of elections in 73 democracies.

In Western Europe and the US, Left-wing parties secured just 42.3 per cent of the vote while the Right won 55.7 per cent, which represents the widest gap in vote share since 1990.

Meanwhile, the hard-Right scored a record high vote share of 14.7 per cent after radical politicians performed well in elections from France to Panama.

The Left’s demise can even be charted in Latin America, a stronghold of socialism after years of brutal fascist dictatorships.

After Mr Trump’s inauguration this month, further defeats are expected to be inflicted on the Left in Canada, Australia and Germany, the EU’s largest economy.

“The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon,” Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, said.

Jeremy Cliffe, the editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the global turn to the Right was the result of three interconnected trends: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”

Mr Trump won the popular vote in November’s US election, taking 77 million votes compared to 75 million for Democrat Kamala Harris.

Polls show Pierre Poilievre, a populist dubbed Canada’s Trump, is the favourite to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister after the liberal heartthrob resigned earlier this month.

In Australia, conservatives have pulled ahead of the Labor government in the polls before elections later this year.

Right-wing parties in Europe opened up a near-historic gap with Leftist rivals of nearly 14 per cent in the most recent elections.

Labour’s landslide victory in the UK was the sole solace for the Left in a bruising 12 months of setbacks.

Its success could be short-lived. The first YouGov/Times voting intention survey since the 2024 general election shows a neck-and-neck race between Labour (26 per cent) and Reform UK (25 per cent). The Conservative Party sits in third place with 22 per cent.

Nigel Farage’s party took 14 per cent of the vote in the election – the third-largest share – however, the equivalent 4.1 million votes only translated into five seats in Westminster.

In 2024, the Labour Party only obtained 1.6 per cent points more of the vote than it did in 2019.

In Western Europe, the hard-Right was on the march, posting a record average vote share of 16.9 per cent after votes held in France, Austria, Germany and elsewhere.

Voters across the EU handed overall victory to centre-Right parties in June’s European Parliament elections, but the Alternative for Germany (AfD), France’s National Rally, and Austria’s Freedom Party also celebrated big gains. —>LOTS MORE HERE

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